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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!labtam!news.mel.aone.net.au!OzEmail!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news1.oakland.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.0.5-ALPHA install Date: 4 Jun 1995 00:24:58 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3qqugq$93j@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <87hh69ixsc.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com> <3qoeni$71v@agate.berkeley.edu> <87u4a8jbx7.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <87u4a8jbx7.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com>, Robert Sanders <rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com> wrote: >The kernel gets farther now, but there's a new symptom: it either >hangs at the "npx" status line or hangs after saying "changing root >device to sd0a". Nothing works after that point. It looks like all >the device probes before that succeed. Hmmmm. Several things to look for now: 1. Is another device conflicting with you? To find out: Boot with -c and disable all but the devices you need. 2. Is the geometry set correctly? To find out: Boot sysinstall and look at the geometry in the Partition editor. 3. Do you have both IDE and SCSI? If so, you need to boot with: boot: sd(0,a)/kernel Jordan